Guide to medicine: Difference between revisions

If you're going to treat someone, you're going to have to know what tools you need, how to identify injuries, what machinery and facilities you must use, and how to keep people from dying while in treatment.

Identification is the first and foremost step in administering treatment. Here are ways to identify the type of injuries a person may have.

The patient will be unresponsive to the environment, on the floor, and gasping for air. The first thing you should do when you see these symptoms (or any of them!) is '''administer inaprovaline'''. Inaprovaline stops the general decline of the critical patient's health, but does not treat the wounds-- meaning toxic damage will continue to mount if it's present. If inaprovaline is not present, immediately perform CPR at least once and take out your medical scanner to identify the damage. Continue performing CPR until the patient has regained the ability to breathe on their own. '''''NOTE: CPR on it's own will not heal someone unless they are only suffering from suffocation damage. If they are in crit BECAUSE of burn/brute/toxins it will only keep them from dying. Remember to drag someone to medbay whilst administering CPR instead of sucking their face in the hallway for ten minutes like an idiot.'''

* If a medical scanner is not available, observing their surroundings will help with diagnosis.

* If the patient has none of the above, they are most likely just suffocating. Apply CPR liberally.

This is the first and most important to look out for. It is not visible on the body, but people suffering it will gasp for air. On the medical analyzer, it is the left most damage type. People in critical condition will constantly take suffocation damage.

# Treat other wounds, if stable, and get the person on their way.

This is the second from the left on the Medical Analyzer. It is not visible, and usually people will have no clue they are poisoned (Unless they're vomiting profusely). Thankfully it is easy to treat.

* If someone is actively being poisoned, anti-toxin will counteract the toxins.

This is a straight-forward damage category. This is the damage type second to the right on Medical Analyzers. Burns are visible, and limb specific.

* Or use kelotane or dermaline pills or injections.

This is a straight-forward damage category. This is far right damage type on Medical Analyzers. Brute wounds are visible, and limb specific.

* Or use bicaridine pills or injections.

Diseases are the most frustrating thing you will deal with, as it spreads, and can infect you as well.

If you half ass curing people, the disease may return and kill the person. And they can get infected if they are cloned as well!

Nasty, makes people say stupid things and clunk their heads into airlocks, along with blacking out and an inability to use machinery.

* Alkysine pills or injections.

The person cannot see, they usually will scream about this endlessly.

# [[Surgery]]

Disabilities cannot be cured by normal medical tools.

Rarely you will treat this, it causes people to black out all the time and take steady toxin damage. It either comes from a random event where random crew members will "feel strange" and begin to vomit, but more likely you'll be treating engineers who got too close to the singularity.

* Else, treat with anti-toxins until the radiation levels have subsided.

Caused by slime attacks and imperfect cloning. Commonly seen in [[scientist]]s and those who have been cloned by genetics. Medical scanner will state that the person appears to have deformities, as well as examining them.

How to treat:

* Inject the patient with a clean SE.

Either they died in your care, or died and were taken to medbay.

# This option creates perfect (though plant like) human clones.

These are the vital machines that you need to treat abnormally damaging injuries. You need to be able to access the medbay to use any of these.

Requires oxygen tanks to be wrenched into place, and the freezer should ideally be set to 73.15 K. It automatically stabilizes people in critical condition, and will safely lower a patient's body temperature to levels at which cryoxadone and clonexadone are effective. These chemicals will heal all damage types, and are the only way to fix clone loss caused by cloning and slime feeding.

* Ensure no pipes are out of place, if any are loose, line them up and wrench them back into place. If any are broken, get an [[atmospheric technician]] to repair it.

Sleepers contain an unlimited supply of five different chemicals. If the patient is in critical condition, sleepers can only administer inaprovaline. They cannot heal toxin or clone damage.

Note: If someone only has burn and brute damage, eject them from cryo once they're reasonably far out of crit, then put them in the sleeper and fill them with bicaridine and dermaline. At busy times this will free up cryo for people who need it more, and it saves chemicals.

A major part in all [[Surgery]]. Consult that guide for more information, only medical doctors and the CMO have access to surgery.

This machine needs virology access, and research access just to reach (but not use). It creates vaccines from the blood of people who have been cured.

* Reveals the cure to any infected blood sample without needing to inject a living creature.

Provides any and all chemical reagents you may need for general treatments, or disease control. Holds 100 charges at a time, regenerates charges slowly over time. See the [[Chemist]] job for more details.

Consult Cloning guide.